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Must Read

February 20, 2009 at 12:59 pm · Filed under Good Reads, Medicine

Friends, you MUST read this latest book I plowed through yesterday.

It’s called Still Alice by Lisa Genova and it is BRILLIANT. (The Short & Sweet of it is: The main character is diagnosed at age 50 with Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease and you journey with her.)

I cannot say enough about this book. Please, please check it out from you library and spend some time with it. I whole-heartedly agree with author Julia Fox Garrison as she writes, “It will inform you. It will scare you. It will change you. You owe it to you and your loved ones to read this book.”

Now GO! Check it out from the library.

PS –>  If you do actually go and read this book, drop me a comment and we can discuss or something.  I’d love to hear others’ thoughts.

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Blessed

September 26, 2008 at 12:34 pm · Filed under Becoming Me, Blessed Beyond Belief, Medicine, Motherhood, Unfathomable

Yellow Rose
Today marks the 2 year anniversary of our appointment with Dr. George P. Henry at the Reproductive Genetics Center in Denver.  It was there — after 4½ days of not knowing how healthy of sick our third child would be — that we found out our Beanie was healthy.  Beanie was our final pregnancy and perhaps because we were briefly  thrust into that chasm that is scary and devastating, I am moved to check in with other families whose outcome has been different than ours.  There are several blogs I check in on, and they are listed to the right of this post, under “Blogs I Read”.  Take a moment to read their stories and do whatever it is you do — say a prayer, send out positive energy, meditate, empathize, send your love to someone you’ve never met – for we are better off for all those we let in to our hearts, minds, thoughts, and lives.

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Lookin’ Good

August 28, 2008 at 3:34 pm · Filed under Becoming Me, Deliciousness, Institutionalize Me Now, Medicine

Ask me. 
Go ahead, ask me.  Ask me how my “motivated-to-be-in-shape-by-the-time-I’m-thirty” process is going.

It’s going this good:

Attempt 1

Attempt 1

Something was missing. 
Gettin' It Right

Gettin' It Right

No, I did not eat the first bowl and help myself to the second, MOM!!  I simply spiced up the original attempt …

Oh.  And ask me how getting back into the swing of things with Chad on inpatient medicine for the month  is going.  Go ahead.  Ask.

This was my lunch today. 

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it!

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it!!

Any more questions?!!

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